Tuesday, October 30, 2012

“Every time you have an occasion to take something from
the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right
direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the
private sector, that’s even better. Instead of thinking in the federal
budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite
question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at
the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we
don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because
we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We
cannot --

KING: Including disaster relief, though?

ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without
jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view,
for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on
to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before
it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.

Romney thinks disaster relief should fall solely on states and the "private sector". Considering many states are broke and have already cut crucial services such as wildfire resources in a record-drought, first responders, health care, and infrastructure and considering the "private sector" folks will have been hit by the same natural disaster or because private sector means insurance companies who HATE paying out after disasters, I'd say he doesn't get it. In fact, just the other day insurance companies acknowledged global warming and want something done about it because they're so sick of paying out after disasters like Sandy.It's "simply immoral" to vote for the man who doesn't get it and will make sure disaster victims don't get anything either.